【ノバルティス】Portfolio Management & LCM, Lead
仕事内容
Portfolio Management & LCM Lead
The role is responsible for executing portfolio and late lifecycle management activities for assigned mature and non priority brands, ensuring disciplined budgeting, performance vigilance, and operational continuity.
The position translates portfolio strategy into high quality execution, provides actionable insights, and enables informed decision making through close cross functional collaboration.
About the Role
Major Accountabilities
Shape portfolio strategy through analytics and insight
• Analyze portfolio and brand performance using market forecasts, financials, and competitive intelligence
• Develop clear strategic options (e.g., invest, optimize, simplify, exit) with quantified impact and trade offs
• Support leadership decision making by structuring insights into concise, decision ready recommendations
Drive lifecycle and portfolio initiatives
• Lead late lifecycle strategies such as SKU rationalization, pack optimization, and cost to serve improvement
• Ensure initiatives are aligned with overall portfolio priorities and country commercial strategy
• Track impact post implementation and refine recommendations based on performance
Orchestrate cross functional collaboration within and beyond the Commercial Portfolio Unit
• Work closely with Digital Marketing Execution to explore scalable, efficient execution models for assigned brands
• Collaborate with Commercial Partnerships & Alliances to assess internal vs. external delivery options
• Lead the structured transition and onboarding of brands from Therapeutic Areas into the Commercial Portfolio, coordinating the handover of budgets, forecasts, data, materials, and key assumptions to ensure continuity and execution readiness.
Manage portfolio governance, forecasting, and performance tracking
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes for assigned brands and portfolio segments
• Monitor performance against targets, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend corrective actions
• Contribute to portfolio reviews, governance forums, and leadership discussions
Provide senior level contribution and informal leadership
• Serve as a subject matter expert within the portfolio team
• Provide guidance and thought leadership without formal people management responsibility
• Model structured thinking, ownership, and cross functional collaboration
応募資格(必須経験など)
Ideal Background
Education:
· Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, science, or related field.
· Advanced degree preferred (e.g., Master of Business Administration (MBA)).
Languages:
· Business level English
· Native level Japanese
Experience/Professional Requirement:
• 7–10 years of commercial or marketing experience within the pharmaceutical or medical device industry, with hands on ownership of brands across the end to end product lifecycle, including mature and late stage phases beyond launch execution.
• Proven experience contributing to or leading portfolio level strategy, looking beyond individual brands to optimize, reprioritize, or revise lifecycle strategies, with particular focus on late stage value maximization and portfolio trade offs.
• Strong capability in leveraging analytics, market forecasts, and financial insights to inform strategic recommendations, portfolio choices, and lifecycle decisions.
• Proven ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes, aligning and orchestrating multiple internal and external functions—such as Therapeutic Areas, Finance, Digital, Medical, and other partners—to drive coherent portfolio and lifecycle outcomes.